anitfreeze
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Hi,
I'm running Tiger on a 1.25ghz eMac with 512mg of RAM. For the past month or so my mac has been randomly freezing for no evident reason. I realised that it started happening after getting a new printer and installing the software, so I dumped that and reinstalled it hoping that would work. It didn't. It would also frequently happen why hiding/unhiding the dock, or when the dock would maximise the icons, so I turned off both these functions, and that seemed to reduce the rate of freeezing, but not by much. I then tried the disc repair and repair permissions options, but once again it is still happening. I am wary of archiving and reisntalling OSX as I've never done this before and am worried about losing all my pictures, music etc.
So I thought I'd ask you guys if you had any suggestions as to why this might be happening and what I could do to fix it, and if your suggestion is to archive and reinstall Tiger then I wanted some reassurance and advice about the whole archiving procedure.
I'm quite proficient at using my mac and navigating my way around, but when it comes to tech issues such as disc permission repairs etc I must admit to finding myself pretty lost.
Thanks in advance for any help/advice you can give me, I look forward to hearing what you have to say.
Cheers
Tom
I'm running Tiger on a 1.25ghz eMac with 512mg of RAM. For the past month or so my mac has been randomly freezing for no evident reason. I realised that it started happening after getting a new printer and installing the software, so I dumped that and reinstalled it hoping that would work. It didn't. It would also frequently happen why hiding/unhiding the dock, or when the dock would maximise the icons, so I turned off both these functions, and that seemed to reduce the rate of freeezing, but not by much. I then tried the disc repair and repair permissions options, but once again it is still happening. I am wary of archiving and reisntalling OSX as I've never done this before and am worried about losing all my pictures, music etc.
So I thought I'd ask you guys if you had any suggestions as to why this might be happening and what I could do to fix it, and if your suggestion is to archive and reinstall Tiger then I wanted some reassurance and advice about the whole archiving procedure.
I'm quite proficient at using my mac and navigating my way around, but when it comes to tech issues such as disc permission repairs etc I must admit to finding myself pretty lost.
Thanks in advance for any help/advice you can give me, I look forward to hearing what you have to say.
Cheers
Tom